This gives a clearer picture as to what happened, Kolasinac was already outside of the car when the two men approached him with a knife, they obviously didn’t expect him to fight back. pic.twitter.com/um4SUMjjo3

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: “It was reported that suspects on motorbikes had attempted to rob a man who was driving a car. The driver, along with his passenger, managed to get away unharmed and travelled to a restaurant in Golders Green, where they were spoken to by officers.”

There have been no arrests so far.

Kolasinac and midfielder Ozil are not the first footballers to be targeted on London’s roads.

In 2016, then West Ham striker Andy Carroll was threatened at gunpoint” on his way home from training.